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Anyone want to share their thoughts on the latest Dresden Files novel, Twelve Months?
Just curious if anyone other Tildes users out there are fans of the Dresden Files novels and might have read the latest, Twelve Months. It just released a few days ago and I just couldn't put it down.
I do want to keep my review spoiler free, but I think this is the best book in the series in awhile.
Wondering if anyone else had thoughts!
I didn't realize it was released! Oh man, you've just gotten me so excited.
Please update when you're done? 🙏
Loved it. It's hard for me to place dresden novels so i'll just say it continues to be one of my favorite series.
My favorite thing about Butchers writing has been his ability to move the actual status quo of the world in a believable way, but not fall into lame tropes. Harry is in a WILDLY different place than where he started, but at the same time even when you're thinking "okay now he's one of the big players"...no..no he's not. Let me remind you in gloriously dramatic fashion.
It helps that he also writes well about things like grief (obviously in this book) and keeps his crazy cast relevant and doesn't just lock up all the fun stuff for one character.
Finally I'm probably biased because I think Lara is a really fun character and he did a decent job not going where I expected with her, but I'm still intrigued to see what's next.
The last one I read was Skin Game. I should probably get caught up sometime...I had no idea there was another one coming already.
Worth catching up. He went on a long hiatus as he was dealing with a divorce, and then realized his current book would work better as two, and dropped Peace Talks and Battle Grounds back to back. We just got Twelve Months so that's 3 main series books to binge (i think one or two novella/short stories as well but less important).
That is next on my list, I forgot it was coming after seeing Jim Butcher's AMA on /r/fantasy to promote this.I read through the previous books over the last couple of years and really enjoyed them.
I really enjoyed it! I liked that the pace was slower and the stakes were lower, and that Harry really just had time to live and grieve.
It was also good to see Harry start to rebuild some of those bridges that had gotten a bit burnt in Battle Grounds.
Spoiler Section and general stream of consciousness thoughts
I enjoyed the way his relationship with Lara evolved and was pleasantly surprised at Mab's manipulation and scheming. I can't imagine what Ebenezer would think of that whole thing if he knew all the details.
We also finally got confirmation about what Empty Night means, which will be one of the titles of the final three books in the series (the other two being Hells Bells and Stars and Stones).
The little cameo from Mother Winter and little confrontation with Harry and Mab was also really fun.
I was surprised to see the return of the Black Court so soon. I'm definitely interested to see what Drakul's motives are in all of this, especially since Drakul also appears to be a Star Born.
According to Jim's website, he's 28% done with the next book, so LET'S GOOOOO!
Potential spoilers and speculation about the next book
With the next book being Mirror, Mirror and Harry getting swapped into an alternate timeline by a version of himself that made different choices, I expect most of that book will be Harry trying to get back home so we won't get to explore most of these other things.